Roger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union

by Robert C. Cottrell

Book Overview

Roger Nash Baldwin's thirty-year tenure as director of the ACLU marked the period when the modern understanding of the Bill of Rights came into being. Spearheaded by Baldwin, volunteer attorneys of the caliber of Clarence Darrow, Arthur Garfield Hays, Osmond Frankel, and Edward Ennis transformed the constitutional landscape. Company police forces were dismantled. Antievolutionists were discredited (thanks to the Scopes Trial). Censorship of such...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231119720
• ISBN13: 9780231119726
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher